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secretary to Dr. Boulenger, the Director of a Government Institution in Brussels for defective children. In an account of various things which have happened to her she casually remarks: "I must have been about nineteen when I discovered that part of 'me' (a me which could see and hear and remember) could leave the other 'me' and walk downstairs alone; also that this 'wraith' could, when bidden to do so, go to other people's houses, see what they were doing, and bring back the information desired. "I used to wonder what method of communication was used between these two parts of myself but otherwise, to' me, this was just an interesting game." Mrs. Rolfe has a curious psychic aptitude for visualizing to the minutest detail occurrences of which she could not possibly have been a witness, and twice was the instrument of bringing to justice the perpetrator of a crime. Seeing how little has been written about the Etheric Double, it is not surprising that few people are even aware of its hypothetical existence. Yet, when forcing the subject into conversation, as an author is apt to do, one is made acquainted with many experiences which only the vagaries of the Double can explain, but which have remained to their narrators an inexplicable mystery. The following illuminating example was most kindly given to me by Miss M. A. Hughes, after reading the manuscript of this volume. Mr. J. Deighton Patmore, the subject of the story, is the grandson of the poet; and, before he turned from business to the healing of humanity, was very well known in the City as a financial expert. He has since become the pioneer of chromo-therapy, and